THE CUCKOO'S NEST FOLK CLUB

(a non-profit collective promoting traditional & roots folk music in London since 1973)

2024-2025 CONCERT SCHEDULE

UPCOMING CONCERTS

BOREAL

“Songs for the Snowy Season”

(L to R) Katherine Wheatley, Tannis Slimmon, Angie Nussey

Sunday, December 15, 2024 – 7:30 pm

(Doors at 7:00 pm)

Chaucer’s Pub, 122 Carling Street, London

$25 Advance / $30 at the Door

Advance tickets can be purchased at Grooves (Wortley Village),

Long & McQuade (Fanshawe Park Rd W) and online

Please bring a non-perishable item for the London Food Bank

Boreal is the magical musical collaboration of Tannis Slimmon, Katherine Wheatley and Angie Nussey. These three hard working singer-songwriters, each with their own longstanding, award winning careers, simply love playing music together. In the winter, Boreal shines their collective light on Canada’s coldest months with their show “Songs for the Snowy Season”. The trio’s spell binding harmonies combined vocal prowess and tour-de-force songwriting make for a powerful musical event. With humour, storytelling and heart melting honesty, Boreal takes their audience on a journey of friendship, laughter and connection.

Boreal’s brand new album Winterbirds is now available digitally and on CD. This is their first full recording with Angie, who’s songs “Shepherd of The Road”, “Snowball Fight of ‘92” and “Warm Hands”, bring a robust dose of first-hand winter experience.

Boreal began in 2006, when singer-songwriters Katherine Wheatley, Tannis Slimmon, and Jude Vadala gathered around Jude’s kitchen table with the idea to create a show that would kickstart the winter with excitement and joy. In 2019, Jude Vadala lovingly retired from Boreal and was replaced by singer/songwriter and producer Angie Nussey.

For Information call 519-319-5847 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com

If you have dinner at The Marienbad Restaurant (519-679-9940), next door to Chaucer’s, prior to the concert, you can reserve your seats for the concert by placing your coats on your choice of chairs prior to the doors opening to the general public.

Friday, December 20, 2024 – 7:30 pm

(Doors at 7:00 pm)

Chaucer’s Pub, 122 Carling Street, London

$10 at the door

(or Pay What You Can)

Advance tickets can be purchased online

For Information call 519-319-5847 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com

UPCOMING CONCERTS IN THE NEW YEAR

David Bradstreet & Carl Keesee

Sunday, January 19, 2025 – 7:30 pm

(Doors at 7:00 pm)

Chaucer’s Pub, 122 Carling Street, London

$25 Advance / $30 at the Door

Advance tickets can be purchased at Grooves (Wortley Village),

Long & McQuade (Fanshawe Park Rd W) and online

This is a CD release concert for “Bradstreet & Keesee LIVE in London” which was recorded at the Cuckoo’s Nest in December of 2023.

David Bradstreet is best known for his song Renaissance – an iconic Canadian hit made popular by Valdy. He has been recognized for his work as a singer/songwriter, composer and producer, many albums bearing his name; Platinum and Gold selling records; a high profile Juno Award early in his career; three subsequent Juno nominations and music credits including a Gemini nomination; film and TV soundtracks and scoring; talent discovery and producer for numerous artists including Jane Siberry, Bill Hughes, Colleen Peterson, Nancy Simmonds, Jason Fowler, Robert Priest, Mira Meikle and more. David’s London, Ontario, roots run deep as he was regularly featured at Smale’s Pace Coffeehouse, Change of Pace, and the Home County Folk Festival over the years.

For this concert, David will be joined by his longtime friend and collaborator Carl Keesee (bass). Together David and Carl along with the late Bill Hughes recorded several albums together as the group Lazarus for the prestigious American label Bearsville.

David has toured extensively for over five decades and is a veteran of major tours, coffeehouses, concert halls, house concerts and folk festivals - and has written and performed hundreds of songs. His latest album "Hindsight" (2023) features Carl Keesee, bass; Mark Kelso, drums & percussion; and Nancy Simmonds, background vocals.

"..today’s David Bradstreet is a master of his skills – the voice, deeper and more richly seasoned in all the right places – and as range-friendly as ever; his fingerstyle guitar-playing abilities simply jaw-dropping in their complexity and overall tone – both parts together creating an hypnotic aural weave of intricate, satisfying parts." - Eric Thom, ROOTS MUSIC CANADA

For Information call 519-319-5847 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com

Saturday, February 8 - Langille & Sims – “Blue Valentines #6 – Reality Check”

Sunday, February 16 – New Cumberland

Sunday, March 2 – Newberry & Verch

(presented by Sunfest in cooperation with Cuckoo’s Nest)

Sunday, March 30 – Genticorum

(presented by Sunfest in cooperation with Cuckoo’s Nest)

Saturday, April 26 - Graham Lindsey, Paul Mills & Maddy O’Regan

Sunday, May 25 - Alan Reid (founding member of Scotland’s Battlefield Band)

The Marienbad Restaurant is open for dinner on concert days.

Concert day diners can reserve their seats in Chaucer’s prior to doors opening.

Make your reservation by calling 519-679-9942

All concerts at begin at 7:30 pm and most are held at Chaucer's, 122 Carling Street, London, ON
(unless otherwise indicated)

Advance tickets can be purchased during the season at
Chaucer's/Marienbad Restaurant, Grooves (Wortley Village),

Long & McQuade North (Fanshawe Park Rd W) and online.

For Information call 519-319-5847 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com

Special Advance “5-for-4” Multi-Ticket is available for $100 only at the Concerts
(pay for 4 concerts and get the 5^th one free)

Map to Chaucer's (click here)

We continue to be a completely volunteer run organization. We thank you for your support of live music and look forward to seeing you at the concerts. – Ian Davies, Artistic Director.

What’s happened so far in the 2024-25 Season

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